The Stranger at the Feast : Prohibition and Mediation in an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Community /

The Stranger at the Feast : Prohibition and Mediation in an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Community /

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"The Stranger at the Feast is the first full-length ethnographic study of Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity. Based on two years of field study on the Zege peninsula on Lake Tana between 2008 and 2014, the book follows the material relationships by which Ethiopian Orthodox Christians relate to God...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boylston, Tom, 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Taboo.
Mediation > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Christianity.
Taboo > Ethiopia > Case studies.
Mediation > Religious aspects > Christianity > Case studies.
Christianity > Ethiopia > Case studies.
Ethiopia.
Ethiopia > Church history.
Church history.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : prohibition and a ritual regime
  • A history of mediation
  • Fasting, bodies, and the calendar
  • Proliferations of mediators
  • Blood, silver, and coffee
  • The Buda Crisis
  • Concrete, bones, and feasts
  • Echoes of the host
  • The media landscape
  • The knowledge of the world
  • Conclusion.

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